Prognostic value of event-free survival at 12 and 24 months and long-term mortality for non-Hodgkin follicular lymphoma patients: A study report from the Spanish Lymphoma Oncology Group.

Background: Relatively few studies have analyzed the mortality of follicular lymphoma (FL) patients in comparison with a sex- and age-matched general population. This study analyzed the overall survival (OS) of patients with FL and compared their survival with the expected survival of a general population.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with FL were prospectively enrolled from 1980 to 2013.